Thanks Igor,
I'll look for what PAGER is set to and try to add flags
there. Really appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Ananth
On 1/20/08, Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ananth,
>
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE>. I've redirected this reply to the
> list and set the Reply-To: appropriately -- please make sure your mailer
> honors it.
>
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Ananth Chellappa wrote:
>
> > Hi Igor,
> > I saw a post by you related to vim not showing correct
> > behaviour - not restoring the screen when it exits like less or man.
> > My question is this : you can get less to not do that by using the -X
> > switch. Is there a way to do that with "man"?
>
> "man" uses the PAGER environment variable to select the pager program. By
> default it uses "less -isrR", IIRC. You can add any other flags to the
> less command by setting PAGER in your environment.
> Igor
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